2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw

Of the 12 finalists in Eugene, 10 of them returned to this year's finals. And those 10 were the top 10 from the preliminaries. The top 3 were the medalists.

In the first round of the finals Olympic Champion Valarie Allman got off a 68.57m to take the early lead. Defending champion Feng Bin responded with a 66.97m. Jorinde van Klinken held on to third place with a 63.93m. With her second attempt, two time Olympic and two time World Champion Sandra Perković moved into the top 3 with a 66.57m. In the third round, Allman improved to 68.79m. She improved again to 69.23m in the fourth round. Bin also improved to 67.18m

At the end of the third round, Laulauga Tausaga had to throw a 65.56m personal best to leap from dead last 12th place into fifth place and a chance to make three more throws. She had needed to throw a personal best 65.46m as the final throw at her USA National Championships just to be eligible to come to these championships. On her newly earned fifth throw, she threw the winner 69.49 m (227 ft 11 in), a four metre (13 feet) improvement in her personal best over the course of three rounds.

van Klinken's fifth round throw of 67.20m edged her back into third place. Bin improved to 68.20m on her final attempt to move back into third place. Allman was unable to improve, so on a breakthrough night, the surprised and ecstatic Tausaga was able to step into the ring for her final attempt already confirmed as the champion. She then threw the second best throw of her career, 68.36m.

Before the competition records were as follows:[1]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	76.80 m	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	9 July 1988
Championship record	Martina Hellmann (GDR)	71.62 m	Rome, Italy	31 August 1987
World Leading	Valarie Allman (USA)	70.25 m	San Diego, United States	7 April 2023
African Record	Chioma Onyekwere (NGR)	64.96 m	Ramona, OK, United States	15 April 2023
Asian Record	Xiao Yanling (CHN)	71.68 m	Beijing, China	14 March 1992
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Valarie Allman (USA)	71.46 m	San Diego, United States	8 April 2022
South American Record	Andressa de Morais (BRA)	65.34 m	Leiria, Portugal	26 June 2019
European Record	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	76.80 m	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	9 July 1988
Oceanian record	Dani Stevens (AUS)	69.64 m	London, Great Britain	13 August 2017

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 64.20 m.[2]

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows: